What we do

Azure migration and hosting that stays affordable

Cloud bills grow quietly. We migrate properly, right-size honestly and monitor what you actually run — with your data hosted and processed in the UK, and nothing built that would make leaving us difficult.

Azure · AWS · UK data residency · Infrastructure as code · Monitoring and DR · Cyber Essentials Plus

This service at a glance

Scope and shape

Primary platformMicrosoft Azure
Also deliver onAWS
Data residencyUK by default
ProvisioningInfrastructure as code
Managed serviceTo an agreed SLA
Buy it viaG-Cloud or direct
What you get

A cloud estate you can defend in a budget meeting

Migration is the easy half. The half that gets neglected is what it costs and who watches it eighteen months later.

A migration plan with a landing zone

Networking, identity, policy and subscription structure set up before workloads move, so you are not retrofitting governance afterwards.

UK data residency

Data hosted and processed in the UK by default, under UK GDPR, with encryption in transit and at rest and audit logging throughout.

Cost control, continuously

Right-sizing, reserved capacity where it pays, automatic shutdown of what does not need to run at 3am, and a monthly figure you can explain.

Monitoring, backup and DR

Alerting that reaches a person, tested backups, and recovery objectives agreed in advance rather than discovered during an incident.

Infrastructure as code

Environments defined in Bicep or Terraform and rebuilt from source, so nothing important exists only because someone once clicked it into being.

A managed service, or a clean handover

We run it to an SLA, or we hand it over documented. Either way the environment is yours and portable.

Proof

Hosting at both ends of the scale

A large governed data estate, and a business-critical platform we host and support.

Charity, at scale

236M / day

Marie Curie — with esynergy

A Microsoft Fabric data platform ingesting around 236 million rows a day into a governed, reportable data estate.

Commercial

Platform

Ascend Payroll

A secure payroll and document platform, built and supported as the operational backbone of a next-generation managed payroll business.

The stack

What we build it on, and why

Azure first, AWS where a client already lives there, and no proprietary layer of ours in between.

Microsoft AzureAWSAzure Landing ZonesBicepTerraformAzure MonitorMicrosoft Defender for CloudAzure Backup and Site RecoveryMicrosoft Entra IDAzure DevOpsContainers and AKSAzure Policy

We do not resell hosting with a margin hidden inside it. You hold the subscription and see the bill; we charge for the management. That arrangement is also what makes it straightforward to leave, which is the point.

Two ways to start

Buy it through a framework, or start with a health check

Same team and same standards either way. The route depends on who signs.

Public sector

Public sector — through G-Cloud

  1. Tell us the outcome and the constraints; we send service definitions and pricing.
  2. Buy through the Digital Marketplace — no full tender needed for most engagements.
  3. Procurement gets one link: DPIA, security questionnaire, certificates, referees.
  4. Fixed-price discovery, then delivery against a scope you can hold us to.
Commercial

Business — start with a health check

  1. A short review of your systems, data and reporting, free of charge.
  2. A written summary of what is costing you money and what we would fix first.
  3. Fixed-price discovery if the numbers justify it — and we will say if they do not.
  4. A migration plan in two to three weeks, then moves scheduled around your service windows.
Questions

What people ask about cloud and hosting

By default, yes — hosted and processed in UK regions, under UK GDPR, with the sub-processor list set out in the data processing agreement. Where a client needs a different region, hosting follows that requirement and we say so in writing.

Usually a mix. Moving first and modernising afterwards gets you off ageing hardware quickly; re-platforming the one or two workloads that dominate your bill is where the savings are. Discovery tells you which is which.

Right-sizing against actual usage, reserved capacity where the workload is predictable, non-production environments shut down out of hours, and a monthly review. We will tell you when you are paying for capacity you do not use.

Yes. We start with a review of security posture, cost and resilience, give you the findings in writing, and then agree what to fix first. Taking over is a normal engagement, not an exception.

Recovery point and recovery time objectives are agreed up front, backups are tested rather than assumed, and the plan is written down in a document your auditors can read. It is in the buyer pack.

Let’s look at what you are running.

A short, senior-led conversation — or a free systems and data health check. No hard sell.